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The collapse of American criminal justice / William J. Stuntz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stuntz, William J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime prevention--United States.
- Crime prevention.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. A leading criminal law scholar looks to history for the roots of these problems--and solutions.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the rule of too much law
- Crime and punishment
- Two migrations
- "The wolf by the ear"
- The past
- Ideals and institutions
- The Fourteenth Amendment's failed promise
- Criminal justice in the gilded age
- A culture war and its aftermath
- Constitutional law's rise, three roads not taken
- Earl Warren's errors
- The rise and fall of crime, the fall and rise of criminal punishment
- The future
- Fixing a broken system
- Epilogue: taming the wolf
- Note on sources and citation form.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674062603
- 0674062604
- OCLC:
- 775441750
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